Glenn Beck and Pat Gray analyze Russia's Wagner mutiny as a potential power play by Yevgeny Prigozhin, then critique the one-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade alongside trans activist rhetoric in New York. The host condemns Demi Lovato's pro-abortion song "Swine" and highlights St. George, Utah's new museum dedicated to the Ten Commandments and Bill of Rights. Drawing parallels between current moral decay and the Weimar Republic, Beck warns that unchecked extreme rhetoric from both conservatives and LGBTQ+ extremists risks societal collapse akin to the Nazi Party's rise. [Automatically generated summary]
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And how do we look at what the news reporting is saying about that difference?
And also, we have the LGBTQQIA 2 Plus community.
Lots of fabulous parades and such went on this weekend.
Many of them in front of children, many of them without any clothing on.
It's a wonderful, wonderful turn our society has taken.
And we go into the details on that, what it all means, and where we go from here on today's podcast.
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Welcome to the Glenbeck program.
We're glad you're here, and we welcome Mr. Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed, heard every day on the blaze before this program.
I was listening to you as I was getting ready this morning and you were Pat, you were en Fuego, as I like to say, you know, on the streets where I grew up.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Enfuego.
You were on fire.
I mean, and nobody knows the streets better than Glenn Beck.
You know, thank you.
Thank you for recognizing.
I had a rough upbringing.
I know.
Conquered a lot.
Conquered a lot.
So thank you very much.
So, yeah, congratulations.
So anyway, thank you.
So, Pat, your take on this Russia thing, and I'd like to hear yours as well, Stu.
I don't want to hear Stu, so I'm going to plug my ears.
I don't want to hear Pat.
I didn't really want to hear it either.
It's so bizarre because if that was an insurrection, they did it really poorly.
There was a very poor insurrection.
Well, wait, In some ways, it was a very poor one.
However, they did march 400 miles and take over a large section of Russia.
And I mean, if you can do that with little to no resistance.
Right.
They didn't fire shots.
They didn't fire.
You must be going, wait, hang on.
Wait, wait.
What happened?
Let's take them.
I guess the fight for Rostov-on-Don was really anticlimactic.
But then the march to Moscow was kind of strange as it stopped 120 miles before they got there.
So it's hard to understand exactly what was going on there.
These two guys were best friends just a short while ago, Putin and Progoshin.
Oh, we're just going to play that game next who talks.
We lost you.
You lost me?
Did we?
There we go.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Sorry, go ahead.
Yeah, I was just saying, just a short time ago, Putin and Progozhin were best friends.
Besties.
And then he started, and then Progozhin started badmouthing the war effort.
And I think that caused a little bit of a rift.
But to try to overthrow the government, that's a pretty big rift.
Yeah, like the Russian, the Putin system here, right, of control is not the normal one where you have like overwhelming support of your institutions.
It's like, I've got a bunch of friends who are really rich, powerful, and mean, and they're spread across a bunch of really important sections of the country.
And you realize how weak that is when one of them decides he's no longer your bestie.
Right.
Right.
Yes.
I mean, I was fascinated by the idea that he could go and march 20,000, 25,000 troops 400 miles with no real resistance.
He says he shot down a few helicopters on the way.
And that was kind of it.
Yeah.
Like, how is that?
It shows how weak he may be inside of that country.
And you wonder if this, I mean, because Putin's whole control is basically this idea that he is this guy that goes and kills you if you stand up to him at all, right?
He's going to poison you.
He's going to throw you off a roof, whatever.
And like for a guy to march 25,000 troops 400 miles inside the country and his reaction to that is, you guys are going to Belarus.
You're good.
Go to Belarus.
Yeah, we're all set here.
Don't worry.
No charges.
Everything's been dropped.
Everything's fine.
That is a major crack.
Yeah.
I think this has shown a couple of things over the last year and four or five months.
And that's Russia is not who we thought they were power-wise, militarily.
And B, maybe Vladimir Putin's not who we thought he was either because he looks a lot weaker now.
He does.
So as far as the Wagner or Wagner, like every other news source calls it Wagner or Wagner.
So I don't know which one I'm supposed to go with, but we'll go with Wagner for the moment.
The Wagner group, the head here, he's a guy who was Putin's buddy.
He did all sorts of shady stuff around the world, you know, going into various countries, doing his stuff.
But he also developed a really sweet lifestyle where he had tons and tons of money from corrupt contractors and stuff all over the world.
Now he's been put into this war where he's going in and invading cities and getting caught in hand-to-hand combat and his people being killed all over the place.
And he can't do any of that stuff.
He can't live the lifestyle he was promised for all the shady stuff he's doing.
And so one of the thoughts I think here is that he does this, he kind of orchestrates this, takes this deal because this allows him to return to the sweet existence he had beforehand.
So may I take you to the Godfather 3?
Obviously, you want to take us to the worst godfather.
Yes, go ahead.
Please do it.
Right.
Well, this is the one where Michael Corleone wants to go straight.
Now, I'm not suggesting any of them want to go straight, but he wants to go legitimate.
And so he's like, look, let's look, you know, just as our guard was getting out, they pull me back in.
I don't think that Putin could survive like Michael Corleone, just couldn't survive if you show that much weakness.
That's why I think that this is sends a different message, I think, to the oligarchs.
And that is, this is my opinion, but that we can get rid of the people I want to get rid of, the oligarchs who are the Secretary of Defense and head of the war and all of that.
Putin, I think, wanted them gone because his friend said, you know why this is going poorly?
Because these guys are weak and get rid of them.
But they were big, powerful oligarchs.
And he didn't want to be seen, you know, shooting them in the head or anything else.
And it'll tell us an awful lot if you see those guys replaced quickly.
Yeah.
Otherwise, he's Michael Corleone, or actually he's his father who, you know, is killed.
You look weak.
Bye-bye.
And I think right now, if Yevgeny Progozhin, the head of Wagner or Wagner, whichever you prefer.
Okay, can we just settle this?
It's in America.
It is Wagner.
Yes.
In Russia, it's Wagner.
We're not Russian, so it's the Wagner group.
Right.
So the head of the Wagner group, Progozhin, if he doesn't fall out of a window from about 30 stories high in the next week, that shows how weak Vladimir Putin is right now.
You should not go through near any windows for any reason.
No rooftops.
I wouldn't even go into an elevator.
Don't get out of the way.
Or a helicopter.
No.
No, none of that.
Not near an open window, even on the first floor.
But I don't think it shows how weak.
I think it could show how weak he is, but it could also show this was a deal.
There's no way Putin doesn't assassinate someone like this.
I mean, who was the guy they were just trying to kill in Virginia?
Did you hear about that?
There was a guy who defected or was an oligarch or whatever, came over to America and has been saying nasty things about Putin.
I can't remember the whole story, but Putin was threatening to kill him here in the United States.
Yeah.
And apparently they were going to try to kill him.
This guy we don't even know.
Yeah.
Right.
And wasn't it, I think they said it was the first time the Russians have tried this on American soil.
And so it set a really dangerous precedent for the incident.
And it looks like the Russians are more willing to reach out and kill anybody who disagrees with this war.
I don't think this was the first time.
You remember when we were at CNN, Stu, and there was a guy, I think it was in Virginia, that they really suspected that Putin had done it.
It was right around the time when that guy got the polonium 212 or whatever that was.
Do you remember?
In England, it was right around that time that, and this was a time when our government didn't say everything out loud, but there was strong suspicion that Vladimir Putin had executed that guy on American soil.
I want to expand on your point, there, Glenn.
I would, I'm never, I've never been in this position before, but I am rooting for more government secrecy.
Can you please shut up?
Can you please stop telling everyone in the world everything that we're doing?
Stop.
Why am I reading about every little move that we've made across the world in the Washington Post and the New York Times?
I don't want to know every weapon you're sending there if you're going to do it.
But wait, I don't want to know.
Look at what they're doing.
You're exactly right.
Except they are keeping all of the things they're doing internally, which they shouldn't be doing.
They're keeping those things secret from the American people.
It is honestly that it's like they are treating us as they should be treating Russia and treating Russia like us.
Like, you know, we're the enemy here.
Yeah, it's a focused secrecy.
The things they're keeping secret, they shouldn't be keeping secret.
But some of the stuff they're doing internationally, we keep reading about in the papers over and over and over again.
It's like, that's the stuff it's supposed to say in your quiet voice.
Like, that's.
I know.
I know.
But I think this is, again, a sign that the world is completely upside down and inside out.
Remember, I said, what you thought was solid will be liquid.
What was up will be down.
This is consistent with that.
What they're saying about our foreign entanglements, they would have never said that before.
And if they got caught doing something here in the United States, they absolutely would be squealing like a pig right now.
It's upside down and inside out.
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We are living in, well, unique times.
Let's leave it at that.
Unique times.
Boy, you know, the Chinese say, may you live in interesting times.
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These times are very, very interesting.
I don't know if anybody else feels that way, but wow, I'm interested in these times.
Thank you, China.
You know, we're learning all kinds of new things, like men can have abortions.
Except a reporter was out from, I think it was the millennial, was it?
Anyway, they were out and they were talking to these trans people and trans activists at an LBGTQ event, and they were talking about how important abortion is for trans women.
Well, this is what they were saying, that trans women will die, possibly, if they can't have an abortion.
And I think what they meant was trans man, which trans men, well, a woman who says they're a trans man, right?
That's a woman who claims to be a man that's really a woman.
Whatever the thing.
This is so interesting.
Yeah, whatever the thing, whatever word comes after trans is the thing they are saying that they are.
That's how I remember it.
So then they're a trans man.
So a woman who says they're a man is a trans man.
A man who says they are a woman is a trans woman.
Right.
Okay.
Got it.
So trans women are completely safe because they're men.
However, we have to support those trans women.
No way.
Trans men who can now have abortions because they're really women and could always have an abortion.
But now it's confusing because they're men.
Right, correct.
So a trans man can absolutely, in theory, have an abortion because they are a woman.
A trans woman could not have an abortion because they don't have any of the body parts needed to actually have an abortion.
There's no womb to evacuate that clump of cells from.
Amen.
Amen.
And I'm glad at the protest this weekend in Washington, D.C., the trans activist was sticking up for men that need an abortion because they're actually women posing as men.
And I think that was very clear from the beginning for really all of us, honestly.
But we have that exciting thing going on.
We also have Demi Lovato.
She's just released a new pro-abortion song this weekend.
And I love it.
May I give you some of the lyrics of swine?
Oh, yes, of course.
We have the video.
Oh, play the video.
Yeah, play it.
I think I'm gonna do a thing.
The government knows my body.
No, it's okay.
I trade it this way.
I'm only prop and happy.
Come on.
Or am I just swine?
No, I wouldn't call you a pig.
Some might, but for entirely different re entirely different reasons.
So she's saying, or am I just a pig?
I want to ask you, Demi, are you implying it's okay to do surgery on pigs?
And that pigs have a choice whether they're bacon or not?
I don't know what that means, but I appreciate that.
It's really, it's really quite nice.
Now, there was a chant also this weekend in New York from trans activists that I found very, very, some would say unsettling.
Here it is.
We're queer.
We're coming for your children.
You know, that's a snappy number.
And it's a little interesting seeing that that would be grooming.
I just want to point that out.
That would be grooming.
Or you're kidnapping our children.
I don't know what that absolutely means, but I can think of a good way to interpret that.
Now, why would you be doing that?
Why would you do that?
Why would you chant that in the streets?
You're looking for an actual answer or is this rhetorical?
Well, I mean, I think their defense would be, and again, there's not much of one, but I think their defense would be, these evil right-wingers are always accusing us for coming after their children, and it bothers them so much that we should just come out and say it.
We're not really doing it, but we're just out there to piss off those evil right-wingers.
Now, I don't think that's a good catch.
No, listen to me.
No, that's a great strategy.
And that's why I feel that, you know, people who are conservative should just go to the streets and say, hey, we're here and we really are Nazis.
Hey, we're here and we're really Nazi.
Nobody would do that.
Nobody would do that as a joke.
Nobody would do that to taunt the media because that's horrible.
We are not Nazis.
So why would they say we're coming for our children when half the country thinks you are coming for our children?
That's the worst strategy of all time.
Right.
And it's particularly, I mean, when you have the media to back you up and give you a pass on it, you know, that's one thing.
I mean, to be, if you want to really give them the benefit of the doubt here, which I am not inclined to, but if you wanted to, I mean, like, we used to put out, we had t-shirts and stickers that said evil incorporated, conservative, evil conservative incorporated.
And like, it was a joke in that they always called us evil conservative.
So let's just embrace it.
Now, that's a little bit different than saying we're coming for your children.
That's a real big line there.
But if you wanted to really reach and find some justification, I assume that's what they would say.
I assume they wouldn't say they're walking to a kindergarten to actually steal children.
But then again, I don't know that I'd put it past them.
And you know who's really getting the brunt of this?
The gay community.
Where's the gay community?
The gay community has, and I don't know this firsthand, I've always just heard this, from LGBQ people before the T was handed, right?
It's so, such interesting times we're living in.
I just love it.
But the LGBT, no, the LGBT, no, the LGBQ people have told me, and I've heard it in shows, et cetera, that they have a problem with the T people because it's such a different culture.
Well, okay, the T people are making the LGBQ people look crazy and dangerous.
Okay, just crazy and dangerous.
And I don't mean the T people.
I don't mean most of the actual T people.
I mean the people that are running, I don't know, some sort of crazy media.
Let's show up and we'll show them sponsored by Bud Light those people who are behind all of this.
Does that make sense?
I mean, in today's world, that would make no sense 10 years ago.
Does it make sense?
This was just the L and the G, right?
It was sort of an L and the G thing for a long time.
It was an L G thing.
And then the B sort of came out there and people were like, well, the B is a little bit different, isn't it?
And they're like, well, no, the L G and the B kind of hang out together.
After that, it got to the T and the Q and the Q and the I and the A and the 2 and the plus and all the things that have come since.
And you're right.
They are different cultures.
I've seen gay comedians go off on this and they're just like, hey, we fought for a really long time to get the stuff that we got.
And the T's are just coming in and they're just doing their thing and they're expecting like wide acceptance in two weeks.
Like, hey, we worked really hard.
It took us decades and decades and decades to get acceptance in this culture.
And the Ts are like busting in without all the work.
They didn't pay their dues in this particular fight, according to any of the L's and the G's and the Bs.
And so I bet you some Ts would disagree with the L's and the G's.
I'm sure there.
I do think there is a legitimate, I don't know, I mean, sort of a civil war between the L's and the Gs and the B's and then the T's.
I think there's some level of.
But there should really, I mean, the Bs do not belong with the L's and the Gs because you were born that way.
B is like mega choice, man.
Come on, mega choice.
Pick one.
Stop being so greedy.
Pick one.
Pick one.
That's your wheres of the B's.
Okay.
The L's and the Gs were the ones that were like, we're born this way.
All right.
You're born that way.
I'm going to give it to you.
I'm going to give it to you.
The Bs, no.
No.
I even give you the Ts to some extent because you feel like you were trapped in your body.
Okay.
So I'll say, hey, he's feel like he's a woman, been trapped in his body his whole life.
The Bs, again.
I don't know.
I'm going to try that one.
No.
No.
I see your point, but I do think the L's, the Gs, and the B's are fundamentally making the same argument, which is you can be attracted to something that is not traditional.
You might have, you might go against the grain on some of these things.
Maybe you think everything's great.
Maybe you think the opposite sex is great.
Maybe you think the same sex is great.
But it's all coming down to your attraction, right?
What you are attracted to.
No, it's not because there's also the other bees, the bestiality bees.
That's a different thing.
Otherwise, if that's your case, then I have to have LGBTQ2 plus IA.
And there's not two Bs yet.
There's two Q's.
There's no two B's.
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We're live in St. George, Utah, in Washington County, Utah.
This is just a great place.
We're here at the gateway of Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon and Monument Valley.
It is a beautiful place and it's full of red rock and has been a great place to vacation or retire to for a long time.
This is retirement, great medical facilities here.
The Bill of Rights00:03:24
But it has become the fastest growing county in America now.
And that happened because of COVID.
And people were looking for places to go.
And now, I mean, I'm always so stupid when it comes to buying houses.
I almost bought a house here like five years ago.
So just, I love this community.
And I didn't, of course not, because now they're worth five times what they were.
But I really think this, in all of the best ways, is going to become the next Phoenix.
It's going to have a population explosion.
It already is.
And it's just going to keep growing.
And the county knows that.
And they're doing something.
They're getting ahead of things.
And I highly recommend that you do this as well in your own community.
They are planting the flag deep into the American principles.
For instance, this week, I think they've declared it Liberty Week.
And that's what we're here for, is to really showcase a community that is making liberty their cornerstone.
And so in front of the building where our museum is in, it's in a county building they just built, and we take one whole floor of it.
It's 12,000 square feet.
And inside we have the museum.
We also have the county councilors who are amazing.
They don't necessarily all agree on everything, but they are all in lockstep on one thing, and that is the principles this city was founded on and is ruled by.
And it kills me that this is extremist, but they are dedicating the Ten Commandments.
They're putting the Ten Commandments in stone right, you know, I think it's in front of the county building, but I'm not sure.
Ten Commandments, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the Bill of Rights.
And that's controversial.
In most cities, it would be.
It's not here.
Putting the Bill of Rights should never be controversial.
Those are the rights that we all used to agree on.
And we don't anymore because we don't agree on anything.
We can barely speak to one another and understand each other because, you know, we're being scattered intentionally and language is changing.
And they say values are changing, but I don't think values are.
I think it's just that things like the Bill of Rights have been made unpopular.
Instead of being taught, they have just been branded as racist or whatever.
They are the rights of all men, all women.
Not furries.
If you're a furry, I don't think those rights go to you, but that's because you're not a man or a woman, you know.
Anyway, so I've been reading this book on the Weimar Republic, and I'm reading it because I think there is a great lesson to learn.
Weimar Lessons on Social Decay00:04:07
Weimar Republic became uber socialist and also at the same time, uber individualistic.
And it was celebrated as this wonderful new city of Berlin and wonderful hope.
It's what cabaret, that old movie is about, is about the decadence of the Weimar Republic.
And that movie is way toned down compared to what Weimar really was in Berlin really was.
This is the place that did the first trans surgery.
They did it on a man in the museum.
We have a photo of him.
He died because, you know, the doctor of the day, the one that was doing the surgery and really pushing it at the sexology clinic, just decided to stuff a uterus in a man.
His body rejected that, but they were close.
Anyway, everything started to go downhill just the way it is now.
And the churches began to be very concerned.
But remember, the churches, many of them, had become participants in socialism.
And so they were looking for somebody to help them.
And first they started themselves.
First, they were saying, we got to get traditional marriage back.
We have to stop with this trans stuff.
It's killing our kids.
Pedophilia was starting to creep in.
There were underage known and they just look the other way, known child prostitutes on the streets where you could just go get it and nobody did anything.
And the Germans had enough of them.
least the Christian, the ones who are still calling themselves Christian, Germans.
Many of those churches had gone dark already because they had been infiltrated by National Socialists.
So what happens?
Well, I want to just give you a little bit.
The churches built new organizations.
This is from Weimar Germany, the book.
The churches built brand new organizations, parties, associations, publishing houses, paramilitary bands, and began to promote a new violent brand of politics, which contributed greatly to the frenetic, chaotic quality of Weimar.
Ultimately, Weimar's opponents, the established conservatives and the radical right, would come together in a grand coalition under the rubric of the Nazi Party.
It would destroy the Republic and all the opportunities it had offered.
It goes on.
How they got together is they were stronger together and people became confused and they were like, somebody's got to make this stop.
So the churches that had already become socialist now start to preach moral and start to stand up because the family was under attack.
And because they're socialist, they become nationalistic, national socialists.
This is what the Biden administration is saying is happening.
I don't see it myself, but I do see the recipe for it.
And we have to be informed enough to know history and understand what we could easily be facing.
And quite honestly, it's why I think the gay community needs to come out and say enough is enough.
Pedophilia Is Not Part of the Deal00:06:12
Pedophilia is not part of the deal.
Pedophilia is not a part of being gay or lesbian.
Pedophilia is wrong.
And we're not going to allow these organizations that are, you know, stirring the pot for LGBTQ plus 2IA, whatever it is.
Stop it.
Not in my name.
Pedophilia and this extremist idea of we're coming in to get your children in schools is beyond pale.
It is death to our society.
And if people don't stand up, you're going to have these seeds watered.
And I warn the churches, I warn you, and I warn the gay community.
This is something we should all take seriously and work together.
Because what does a pendulum do?
A pendulum, like in a clock, goes back and forth, back and forth.
And if it's in a clock, it's regulated.
They used to say regulator.
And it was regulated on the clock.
So it swings a certain amount each time.
That way time is consistent, but it swings both ways.
However, if you've ever seen or played with a pendulum, if you are only on one side and you're pushing in one direction, not the other, it starts to swing hard and it goes higher.
And then if somebody pushes it from that elevation, pushes it back, it goes higher on the right.
And the person on the right shoves it down and it goes higher on the left.
And that's what's happening.
It gets out of control until, as it always does, somebody grabs the pendulum and says it's stopping here.
But let's say no one stops it here.
You cannot keep pushing from the extremes.
You must take a stand, and I mean that on both sides.
We saw this with these Nazis, I think they were probably FBI, but these Nazi people going in and trying to infiltrate a gathering of patriots.
And they immediately turned on them and said, get out.
And they turned them away.
Now, whether that's because they're Nazis or spies, I don't know.
But the point was, you have no place here because you are saying at least you're Nazis.
It's bad enough if you are.
If you're saying it, it's the same deal.
We don't want Nazis or those who claim to be Nazis anywhere near us.
That is making sure that the pendulum is not pushed more.
If the FBI was trying to infiltrate, it was because they wanted people to see it and go, oh my gosh, they are Nazis, which would push that pendulum further up into the left.
And then it's going to come back and swing the other way, just like it did in Weimar.
If you are a gay person lesbian whatever, and you understand the family values, you understand you were born this way.
You know you probably spent many years and as a child not wanting to be that.
I understand that.
Nobody wants to be a pariah.
Okay, I get that.
I understand that.
I've never been against gay marriage because I'm a libertarian.
The government has no place in it.
Just don't tell my church who to marry and how to marry people.
And I'm not going to tell your church or, you know, your whatever, whatever one you want to use to get married.
I have no business in that.
I feel bad that one of my heroes, Bruce Jenner, felt the way he felt his entire life.
That kills me.
He was a hero of mine as a child.
And he was struggling like that the whole time?
I have ultimate compassion for him.
So where are those people standing up?
Bruce Jenner is.
Where are those people as a group standing up in their own community saying, enough, enough, stop this, just like the conservatives did when Nazis showed up.
Stop this.
You are not part of us.
We want nothing to do with you.
Because you are radical extremists that will mean the death of anybody trying to come back together.
It's time to start reminding the left.
Instead of just rejecting them, instead of just yelling about them, it is time we start encouraging them to come back to sanity.
We don't have to agree on everything, but just stop your extremists as we stop our extremists.